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95:365 | 2020 Census Challenges
ByJMOne of the reasons I’m interested in crafting service-learning initiatives around the 2020 US Census is the long roster of implementation challenges associated with this important process. We designers love finding challenges, problems, and opportunities that educational interventions can help to support – and this one is a whopper! The US Census Bureau’s operational plan…
5:365 | Progress
ByJMAs I write (and rewrite and rewrite) the overview for the first week of Technology, Learning Systems, and Culture, a course I’m co-teaching with Stephanie Moore at the University of Virginia, I’m trying to pull examples from recent history to frame the (wonderful!) readings Stephanie assembled. Our first week’s reading list includes Andrew Feenberg’s 1999…
Writely – The Web Word Processor
ByJMI've been working with Writely – an online web word processor – for the past couple of days. So far, it appears far superior to other writing collaboration tools (and wikis) I have seen. Beyond the word processing and wiki like functionality (spell check, comments, multiple save as options- to Word, a PDF, etc), it…
ajax … everything
ByJMAs we've seen (and tried), there are a lot of fun and useful ajax enabled web based tools like writely.com (gobbled by Google). Here are a few new ones created by Ajax13 along with the descriptions from the web sites (in italics) bringing us ever closer to a web versus desktop platform for all of…
13:365 | Semester Eve
ByJMCrab legs were harmed in the filming of this Semester Eve dinner. Celebrating the start of a new term. Cheers to the next 16 weeks!
17:365 | The Need
ByJMI spend a lot of time contemplating the need that drives our work at Designers for Learning. It’s challenging to get the right mix of relevant statistics to frame the problem/need, empathy to share the human cost/importance, while avoiding condescension (e.g., labeling/deeming other humans as being “less than”). So, here’s today’s latest attempt. I’ve probably…